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Any notable firearm manufacturer

Colt, Winchester, Ingram, Glock, Mauser, etc. You're not likely to meet a Alexander U.S. Repeating-Arms, but if you do you should probably run very fast. Zig-zagging. Preferably a very short distance to some sort of solid cover. If behind that solid cover you should happen to find an RPG launcher and a stock of rounds for it, so much the better..

Subversion: In the anime Scrapped Princess, the Casull family is on the run from the church of Mauser and any last name for any character is a weapon manufacturer. There's enough characters to go from obvious ones like Winya Chester, Barrett and Steyr to more obscure ones such as Galil, Giat, Socom, Scorpse and Peters-Stahl.

Mauser's nemesis, Browning. Also, Mauser's servants are called the Peacekeepers, and Browning's are the Dragoons.

Monster Hunter International: Owen Zastave Pitt (the Owen submachine gun that his father used in Vietnam, along with Zastava, the main small arms manufacturer in Serbia). Subverted in that Word of God confirms that he's named after the place in Serbia that is also the namesake of the manufacturer, it's just a nice coincident for an author and a character who many people would put under the Gun Nut trope.

Umineko: When They Cry's Chiester Sisters are each named after the make number of a given gun. Thus far there are Chiester 45, 410, 00, and 556. 00 refers to the 00 shotgun shell; 410, the .410 shotgun round; 45, the .45 Colt round; 556, the 5.56x45mm NATO assault rifle round. In the fifth book, two additional Chiester Sisters are mentioned: Chiester 20 and Chiester 127. 20 refers to 20mm rounds fired by a M61 Vulcan Gatling Gun, while 127 refers to 127mm shells fired by a 5-inch deck gun.

Webcomics

Subverted in Loserz — Ben Winchester, Jodie Beretta, and Eric Remington are all fairly ordinary high school students (although Jodie is a massive slut and is revealed in the sequel strip, Quarter Life Crisis, to have grown up to be a stripper, she's not someone you would exactly run from).

Tekkaman Blade. Most of the other Tekkamen have weapon names too (Dagger, Axe, Sword...), and if that isn't enough indication you should run, there's Tekkaman Evil. Then Tekkaman Blade II has Tekkaman Dead.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: The Blades are a group of ancient dragonslayers, led by the Dragonborn, who can steal the souls of dragons and kill them permanently. When they ran out of dragons to kill, the Blades became the personal bodyguards of the Dragonborn Emperors. The Aldmeri Dominion made a smart (if slightly dickish) move in wiping them out before beginning the war with the Empire.

The Blades of the Darkmoon in Dark Souls are servants of Velka, Goddess of Sin. They are charged with punishing people with outstanding sins(in-game, this constitutes killing NPCs, getting indicted by players you've invaded and killed, etc.), usually by invading their world and killing them. Velka's influence is so great, other deities fear her power.

Jack Vance has Villain Protagonist Cugel the Clever, a homophone for cudgel. Also a jab at the character, since a cudgel is the exact opposite of his attempt to be clever and subtle.

In the Warrior Cats series, the main villain was named Hammerclaw in drafts of the first book. Someone pointed out that the cats wouldn't know what a hammer is, and his name got changed to Tigerclaw (the cats know vaguely what Big Cats are).

Subverted by Hammer in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, a scary-looking American army man who, upon finding himself in Dracula's castle, starts collecting weapons... to open a shop. Mina is spooked; Soma is just perplexed.

The Mjolnir (after Thor's hammer) cyborgs in the Marathon verse, and the Mjolnir armor of the Spartans in Halo. Also, Foehammer, the dropship pilot from the first installment of the latter series.

Vyacheslav Molotov is a double-whammy - the incendiary bomb is named for him, and molot is Russian for "hammer".

Charles Martel, illegitimate son of Pepin of Herstal and de facto ruler of the Franks from 718 to 741 CE. If you're curious, his last name was actually a cognomen, meaning "Hammer", for the way he crushed his enemies on the battlefield.

Shanks from One Piece. Subverted in that he's really a nice guy, and not in an Affably Evil way. Then double-subverted when it's revealed he's one of the Four Emperors, one of such power that not even the Marines, Warlords, nor other Emperors want to antagonize directly. When the Marineford War was about to devolve into a Mêlée à Trois, his appearance and threat to join in the brawl stopped the war right there and then.

Tough-looking character actor (and real-life ex-con) Danny Trejo often plays characters named after edged weapons. He's been Navajas ("knives" in Spanish), Razor Eddie, Razor Charlie, and Machete no less than four times.

Not sure if it fits here, but Tezzeret is actually a term for any improvised weapon (at least, in his native tongue. He got his name after he used a crude knife to take down an older boy who had been bullying him. He takes the name to heart, as he sees his intellect as a great weapon that many take for granted.

So badass it actually got two weapons, a spiky club and a tear gas, named after it. It thus can be an incredibly tough-sounding name for both men and women, and so can certain sound-alikes such as "mason"—after all, it's somebody who cuts rocks. On the other hand, "Macy" isn't a good, tough name, as naming tough people after department stores is a no-no.

Also from the Star Wars universe is Mace Windu. Given that he beat Sidious in a lightsaber duel, is one of the only Jedi to freely draw upon anger, aggression, and dark side of the force, has torn apart droids with his bare hands and is played by Samuel L. Jackson, yes, you should run away really fast.

Literature

In the David Gemmell novel Morningstar, the main character has two of these, his real name being Jerrik Mace and his title being Morningstar.

In Survivor Dogs, one of the dogs in the Fierce Dogs pack is named Mace.

Colonel Mace of UNIT in Doctor Who. When confronted with a Sontaran invasion, changes the bullets to steel jacketed, nullifying the Sontarans anti copper jacketed bullet field, calls in the Valiant, a flying aircraft carrier with massive fire power, gives a rousing speech, then proceeds to kill the Sontaran field Commander with a revolver, after saying "You will face me sir!"

Spike the vampire from Buffy the Vampire Slayer starts as a villain, and being a hundred-and-twentysomething he poses a far bigger threat than most regular vampires. He also has a unique record (as far as we know) of having killed two Slayers. Interestlingy, a 'Beware Dog' sign is regularly shown in the background in his scenes.

Jerkass antihero of Climax's Dreamcast Timestalkers game, simply named Sword. Actually, everyone playable has a simple object name like the puppet being named Marion, except the elf Nigel, who was a hero from a previous game (though Sword is the only one people want to get away from for being such a smug Ahole). Lady scares the three mobster bad guys a lot, but that's because they're really just bluffing blustery types who are used to others doing their work.

The Wario series has Kat & Ana, twin ninja girls. They also have a pet bald-eagle and monkey named "Shuriken" and "Nunchuck" respectively.

Bayonetta. Not necessarily evil, but you're sure going to want to run very fast if you ever bump into her.

Just about every character in Soul Eater was named both after their weapon or weapon form and a famous musician. Examples: Maka Albarn, whose first name is an anagram of the Japanese word for scythe, "kama". She wields a Sinister Scythe and is one, in the anime. Black Star uses a giant shiruken, the Thompson sisters turn into Thompson Eagles, Jackie O'Lantern Dupre is a flamethrower, and Harvar D. Eclair is named after the French word for "lightning", conciding with the fact that he is an electric lance.

One episode of Blackadder the Third has Edmund Blackadder and Baldrick taken captive by French revolutionaries and handed over to a female torturer/executioner named Madame Guillotine.note In real life a darkly humoristic nickname for the guillotine.Fortunately, she turns out to be The Scarlet Pimpernel in disguise. Unfortunately, this only becomes apparent after Edmund poisons him.

In certain Transformers continuities, there is Bludgeon, a ruthless Decepticon martial artist who, in most incarnations, has a skeletal samurai motif. Ironically, he doesn't wield a bludgeon at all, favoring swords and/or Metallikato techniques for close combat.

Mocked in Dragon Age II in the Mark of the Assassin DLC; the party gets ambushed after speaking to a contact named Edge, and your party members point out either that the name is ridiculous ("Edge? That's his name?") or that they shouldn't have trusted a guy with a name like that.

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